The battery : how portable power sparked a technological revolution / Henry Schlesinger.
Schlesinger, Henry R.
2010
TK2901 .S27 2010 (Mapit)
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Title
The battery : how portable power sparked a technological revolution / Henry Schlesinger.
Author
Schlesinger, Henry R.
Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
9780061442933 (alk. paper)
0061442933 (alk. paper)
Publication Details
[Washington, D.C.] : Smithsonian Books ; New York : Harper, c2010.
Language
English
Description
xi, 308 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Call Number
TK2901 .S27 2010
Dewey Decimal Classification
621.31/242
Summary
The first popular history of the technology which harnessed electricity and powered the greatest scientific and technological advances of the modern era. Line drawings throughout.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-296) and index.
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Introduction: History in real time
A world without science
The death of superstition
The tale of the frog
Science, showmanship, and the voltaic pile
Not a gentleman of science
What hath God wrought?
Finally, something useful
Power and light
Genius by design
Victorian age of discovery
Without wires
Mass-marketing miracles
What will they think of next?
Distance dies in the parlor
The endless frontier
See it! Hear it! Get it!
Smaller and smaller
Always on
Lab reports
Epilogue: Bring on the future
Appendix: Those troublesome Baghdad batteries.

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